HYPE CITY

Your Monthly Guide to The Magic City

This is selection of events we’ve gathered throughout the month – organized, categorized, and presented in chronological order, with links to full event details, including maps and ticketing information.

Brooklyn-based indie duo, Hank & Cupcakes, brings their incendiary brand of electro-pop to Miami for what is sure to be a sizzling Valentine’s Night performance. Special Guests: Fudakochi and Laura of Miami. MORE

Last time MoonBoots played in Miami, he shook the Garret with nu-disco beats and jumpy synths. This time, he’s bringing his signature sound to Grand Central, along with the deep grooves of Jonas Rathsman. MORE

ARTS & CULTURE

Margrethe Aanestad explores spatial relationships through form, color, material, and space. She uses various techniques on paper and a careful orchestration of found objects to reveal a sublime balance. Her compositions are not only a relationship between drawings and three-dimensional panels, but a response to the space and place itself. MORE

As part of WAVES, a series of performances which highlight collaborations between musicians and artists in visual fields, Pérez Art Museum hosts an interactive installation inspired by Physical Therapy‘s new album, “Waiting Room in DJ Hell.”MORE

This exhibition features the pillars of the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, anchored by a tribute to the last hours of the iconic Jumbo’s Restaurant, a historic symbol of the undoing of American Jim Crow. MORE

Austin theater mavericks Rude Mechs return to Miami with their new show inspired by new theories in evolutionary biology. The play is an intimate evening designed for an audience of thirty participants that takes a locked room puzzle, a lecture on ‘aesthetic selection’, and an interactive role playing game and weaves them together to reflect on how choice, chance, and beauty impact our lives, and shape the world around us. MORE

Marketplace showcasing and selling unique items crafted by a variety of local artists, designers, and makers. Free and open to the public, brings together a community of artists and makers working in diverse media, such as product design, printmaking, jewelry, pottery, and more. MORE

This solo exhibition presents Book from the Sky the monumental work of acclaimed contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing. The Frost Art Museum devoted the entire space of their Grand Galleries to this massive exhibition, which features hundreds of meticulously hand-carved wood blocks, huge propaganda-style scrolls, and more than 4,000 invented Chinese characters. MORE

What will it be like to live in Miami 10, 25, or even 100 years in the future? How can we as a community and a city overcome the challenges and maximize the resilience and opportunities of a continually changing urban environment? Explore these questions and more by joining us for Innovation & Engineering Weekend where we will uncover visions for “Building the City of the Future,” through the lenses of architecture and design, energy, the environment, and transportation. MORE

This year’s festival kicks off on Friday, March 6 with the film Wild Tales, up for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, followed by an endless stream of Patron cocktails at our opening night party sponsored by Patron. MORE

Calling all classic film fans, history buffs, and American culture junkies for “In the Trenches,” our three-part series of First World War-era films. Curated and introduced by Frank Luca, The Wolfsonian’s Chief Librarian, this series explores the comedy, tragedy, and horror of the Great War through the actors and filmmakers who lived through it. MORE

Every Wednesday farmers market at Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Hiatus: February 11+18. Returns February 25. MORE

Tropicult provides freeevent listingsfor and by the local community. To find out how to add YOUR events to Tropicult.com (and to be eligible to be included in the next HYPE CITY guide), visit: How To Submit. Events submitted no later than March 7 will be considered for the next HYPE CITY guide, and/or may also be included in Tropicult’s WMC 2K15 GUIDE. SUBMIT YOUR EVENT